Business Intelligence has been a hot topic for as long as Java is around. Yet business are not becoming more intelligent. Instead, they become harder to steer, slower to react, and less adaptable to changes.
The result is the whole private sector chasing after one-trend and then another (first 6 sigma, then consolidation, then outsourcing & globalization). The efficiency of the modern finance system didn't help. It only facilitate all the the unwise moves, and make them more devastating.
There is a natural selection process that is driving the deteriorating of business intelligence (or the lack of intelligence). Those who climbed the ladder by making stupid moves will inevitably prefer to promote people that are just like them, resulting in a wave of inadequate "leaders".
It takes so many emails, phone-calls and meetings to wade through this wave, that by the time I can get sth through to the big boss, the person that signed off the original plan has already moved to a different company. Then I have to go all the way back to have his replacement to sign off the plan all over again.
Such bureaucracy in the private sector is called "business stupidity".
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